Thursday, October 12, 2006

Stat Mech

- Read Chandler cp. 1 & 2
- Read Landau-Lifshitz cp. 1 & 2

Things to do:

- Prove Lioville's thm
- Derive canonical ensemble from microcanonical
- Derive Maxwell velocity distribution
- Work out Gaussian integrals in general AND memorize results
- Go over notes from reading Phillies cps 1-4.
- Get to the bottom of S = <ρ> =? Sum[ρ log ρ]

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